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Creating worlds of 2D animation

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Why choose to work with Harmony?

Benefits of Harmony

The largest animation and gaming studios from around the world choose Harmony to produce the highest quality animation, setting the standard for creative storytelling. Our all in one, end to end 2D animation software allows animators to create cut-out and paperless animation in every style.

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  • All-in-one 2D production animation software; from drawing to final production render
  • Cost and time savings
  • Unlimited creative freedom
  • Flexibility, functionality and sensitivity of tools allows you to create with the highest quality
  • Reliable team that stands behind our software and services; we are reachable — speak with our team live or through the community.
  • Highest value: while we do not have the lowest price, we do ensure the highest quality and integrity of your artistic expression
  • Harmony is chosen by the leading animation studios worldwide who set the industry standard (Emmy-winning 2D animation software)
  • Our community and network makes us unique; our grassroots initiatives keeps us connected to our market of studios, freelance artists as well as students & schools
Key Features

The Features that make Harmony Option #1

Toon Boom Harmony is the worldwide standard for 2D animation productions; Harmony’s Drawing Engine helps our software stand out from the rest. For any animated project style, from clean and precise solid vector lines to organic textured bitmap lines, Harmony offers any creator an unparalleled assortment of advanced drawing tools. Seamlessly switch between brush to pencil, textured to solid or even from bitmap to vector with our powerful vectorization technology.


Harmony Brushes feel natural as you can access the most advanced features with our Dynamic Brushes, allowing you to customize your tips from a variety of parameters such as pressure, tilt or speed.

With Pencil lines, you have the ultimate freedom to change line thickness, tapper or texture after they have been drawn. Configure your desired transparency, import or create your line textures and draw those textures in real-time for both Brush and Pencil lines.

For the best possible results, no matter your level of expertise, Harmony lets you smooth or dynamically stabilize your lines as well as guide your drawings with rulers and perspective guides.

Take advantage of Harmony’s art layers (up to 4 in each drawing) to separate your lines from your colors or create sub-layers for a multitude of functions. No other animation software will give you this many options while working natively in vector and/or in bitmap!

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When it comes time to Ink or Paint a multitude of assets for any project size, what you need is a system that will let you manage your color swatches and palettes effectively from a central place. Harmony allows you to create palettes populated with an unlimited number of swatches which can be vector or bitmap colors depending on your preference.

Each swatch is attributed a unique ID making it extremely easy to update or dynamically change for your animation and compositing needs. Want to change a character’s colors based on different lighting situations?
The colors on your already traditionally animated asset are not quite right? Harmony’s color management system will let you change those non-destructively in no time and share those changes across your entire production line.

At its core, Harmony has had a long history with traditional animation. Projects based on paper animation can take advantage of Harmony’s scanning and auto-vectorization technology, making it a perfect path into digital Ink and Paint.

Want to ditch paper all together? No problem! Our Xsheet and timeline based systems, advanced onion skinning, Shift and Trace tool to manipulate drawings as you would on a traditional animation disk, powerful Art Layers and our dynamic playback or flipping tools will make your Paperless Animation experience a dream come true.

For projects that require rigged characters and props, Harmony has an unparalleled rigging system capable of marrying frame by frame with puppet style animation. Create simple rigs directly from
the Timeline or use the Node View, our non-linear nodal system, to create the most complex hierarchies your scenes require.

In order to satisfy the most demanding projects, make use of Harmony’s powerful deformers within your rigs. Whether you need to simulate the effects of the wind on a textured drawing, bulge a muscle on your character’s arm for your next film or bend a Gaming Asset’s knee for your next game develop- ment, Harmony’s deformers got you covered.

To top it all off, rig part or all of your character using Harmony’s state of the art Master Controller system, a series of tools that allow you to generate manipu- lators which can affect one or several elements in your rig. Give your animators control of a single deformer or full multi-element character rotations without having to dig inside the rig! With Harmony, any 2D animation style can be achieved at industrial speeds, with emphasis on your artistic needs, without compromising on quality.

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While Harmony is used to produce 2D animated content, it has a full 3D environment allowing you to manipulate your assets on all axes simultaneously. Its native camera can be placed and animated in 3D giving us a sense of depth, effortless parallax effects that are accurate and the ability to navigate around imported 3D objects.

Bring in FBX, OBJ or Alembic files from any 3D software and animate them alongside your 2D elements. Preview your render directly in Harmony’s Camera View (this feature requires Autodesk Maya). Once done export your asset or camera animations to your desired packages and enjoy the magic of integration!

Polishing up your animation project can often be a challenge especially when you need to wait for animation to be complete before sending it to post-production for effects. With Harmony’s non-destructive pipeline you can add Effects by attaching them directly onto your rigs whether or not you are working with puppets. Thanks to the Node View where everything you create in Harmony is represented by a Node, you can attach, erase, exchange, group or modify any effect on any Node. Simply select your desired effect from the extensive Node Library and drag it over. Create groups of nodes as templates, save them to share with your team and reuse them whenever you need them.

In each Node you can access a myriad of param- eters making the possibilities practically limitless. Animate each parameter in time to show dynamic effects such as Light or Surface Shading, Particles or Color Manipulation. Try our camera lens effects such as the new Bokeh Node which, with Harmony’s Floating Point rendering system, will make your production more visually appealing than ever before with greater levels of quality.

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It is often said that sound and music bring animation productions to life. In Harmony you don’t have to work in isolation. Bring in as many tracks as you need from any of the most widely used audio formats. Use audio to sync with your animated content but most importantly use voice tracks to lip-sync your characters. Harmony’s automated lip-synching technology will allow you to detect phonemes from any language, map your custom drawings to the track and voila! Re-versioning has never been easier and even manual synchronization is a walk in the park at any stage of your character’s animation process.

Toon Boom Harmony comes with the ability to purchase a Server Database option which is perfect for your medium to large productions. Your assets, scenes and batch processes will be managed from your own Control Center giving anyone through a login, access to the entire project without the need for manually digging into your operating system.

Studios will be able to organize team members and manage their permissions, lock scenes that are already open to stop unwanted changes, or modify any scene data remotely.

Batch processes include managing rendering through the Control Center’s render queue, batch import and export of scenes or drawings, batch vectorization from supported scanners and batch script activation on multiple scenes or entire episodes.

Choose an edition

There is a Harmony edition designed for every client

per month
( annual billing)

Intro edition: enthusiasts

Provides the fundamental drawing, painting, and animation tools needed to create outstanding animation.

  • Target usage for 2D Games, Cut-out, Paperless (Basic)
  • Vector drawing tools
  • HD and 2K camera resolution
per month
( annual billing)

Advanced edition: students, freelancers & studios

Designed for full traditional, paperless style animation. Also includes support for simple cut-out style animation.

Includes all features from Essentials, as well as:

  • Target usage for 2D Games, Cut-out, Paperless, Traditional Scan & Paint for TV Series and Film
  • Vector and Bitmap drawing tools
  • HD, 2K and 4K Camera Resolution
  • Advanced tools for paperless animation
  • Harmony Advanced is available in Harmony Server form factor; Studios should speak with a sales representative.
per month
( annual billing)

Professional edition: studios, freelancers & schools

Adds ability to create sophisticated cut-out rigs, very natural and realistic character movement plus unlimited special effects for any style of animation.

Includes all features from Essentials + Advanced, as well as:

  • Target usage for 2D Games, Advanced Cut-out, Paperless, Traditional Scan & Paint for TV Series and Film, Effects Compositing
  • Vector and Bitmap drawing tools
  • HD, 2K, 4K and 8K+ Camera Resolution
  • Advanced tools for paperless animation
  • Harmony Premium is available in Harmony Server form factor; Studios should speak with a sales representative.

System Requirements

An Internet connection is required to activate the software.

The following requirements are for users of Harmony Stand Alone and client workstations of Harmony Server. Harmony takes advantage of a fast multi-core CPU, high RAM capacity and high-end video cards.

System requirements can be updated or changed without notice.

Software Requirements
  • Windows 11
  • Windows 10 (64 bit)
  • macOS 13.0.1 (Ventura)
  • macOS 12.5 (Monterey)
  • macOS 11.6.8 (Big Sur)
  • macOS 10.15.7 (Catalina)
  • macOS 10.14.6 (Mojave)*
    *In order to run on macOS 10.14.6 (Mojave), the quarantine attribute must be removed from the application folder. Please refer to the release notes for more details.
Hardware Requirements
Hardware Recommended Minimum
Processor (Windows) Intel Core i7, Xeon or better Intel Core i5
Processor (macOS) ARM-Based Apple silicon processor or Intel Core i7, Xeon or better Intel Core i5
Memory 32 GB 8 GB
Monitor 4K monitors with scaling up to 200% supported (Windows)Retina display supported (macOS) 1920 x 1080 1280 x 800
Video Card (Windows) NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 (Recommended), NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3070 (Best) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
Video Card (macOS) Radeon Pro 560 (Recommended) Radeon Pro Vega 64 (Best) Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200
Drawing Tablet Wacom Intuos Pro or Cintiq Wacom Intuos or Bamboo
Disk Space (Windows) 1.21 GB
Disk Space (macOS) 2.1 GB
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*Apple ProRes codecs provide an unparalleled combination of multistream, real-time editing performance, impressive image quality, and reduced storage rates. All Apple ProRes codecs support all frame sizes (including SD, HD, 2K, 4K, and 5K) at full resolution.